Cameo depression glass from Hocking is a beautiful pattern with a central design of a dancing girl in a frame, surrounded by swags and scrolls. Hocking made Cameo for a longer time than many of their patterns, from 1930 to 1934, and used their lovely green and yellow glass for most of the pieces, plus made some in pink and crystal with and without trim. We found mostly green and yellow in Michigan.
Let’s look at a few of the cup styles you might find in Cameo. Some of the styles have identical shapes, except the handles vary, while there are a couple, rather hard to find styles that are quite different.
This first picture shows the most common style has a lovely shape, round, no foot. This variation has a pretty handle that mimics the shield shape that frames the dancer. This is the style we saw the most often at sales or antique malls. Note the little curlicue or scroll at the top of the handle.
Here is the same cup in yellow, sunny and cheerful!
This next cup is superficially the same as the scroll-handled shape, and you can easily mix and match the two styles. The cup handles are round and smooth, with an angled shape. This is a little harder to hold than the more open scroll handles.
These photos show the handles side by side so you can see the difference.
Besides the cups, Hocking used the curlicue handle shape for their shorter, fat creamers and sugars and the angle handles on the taller, skinny creamers and sugars. You might like this post that shows some of the variety.
This taller shape sugarr has the plain angle handle.
Besides the commonly-found round cups, Hocking also made a cup shaped like a small coffee mug with a squarish shape. Unfortunately I’ve never seen one!